Të ai rongomenin for the grant of special tariff treatment are to have their
Full Inleaded effect, it la clearly desirable that as many developed countries 28 ponudbłe uhai ki agere to participate; the gater in number of donor countries,
Tu vikon Be reng, of now export opportunities for developing countries and the
baldon Mag risk of parkot diezuption. It is natural that prospective donor
epuntefnu ghould altanb pur^toular importance to what has come to to termudi
herkenbaring". Aurijustrations and legislatums in developed countries have Prynosi Veiffe in order to give domestic producera a margin of competitive adwaingo over fuviga poduszy. Where some offsetting benefit is obtained,
e.s., la GAIT tariff negotiations or in regional integration agreements, the
reduction ou removal of this adventaga may be justified without too much trouble.
38 Lu long eary to deprivo industries of all or part of their tariff protection
without the justification of any cleapuut offcetting benefit either for them ar
Cc khu economy as a whole. They can be expected to have little regard for
poor poative indirect benefits such as those acoruing in the form of increased
experta which may flow from the enhanced buying power in developing countries.
The case for non-reciprocal mduction or abolition of tariffs must rest on the
conside ation that other countries, with comparable economies, have agreed to
take oɔciesponding ection as part of an international effort to improve the export
eacains and consequently the development prospects of the poorer countries, The
dong countries can each claim that they are partners but equal partners in
this endeavour. The Group agree, therefore, that the major developed countries
should all participate and that any special tariff treatment should be such that
every donne country would oenuider 16 was contributing its share - no more and ca
lego .. to the agreed aim. In unlox to ensure that all donors make end maintain
equivalent efforts, and in particular in order to clarify how the concept of
equivalent effort would be interpreted, an understanding would have to be reached
by all donor countries. both before implementati:n and after special tariff .
treatment has been introduced, consonning the conditions under which preferencés
would be granted and maintnined. Moreover, a consultative procedure would have to
be established among doner countries to examine any subsequent significant changes
in the coverage or nowire of the special Auxiffe applied by say donor countries,
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